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Metamorphosis
"When he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted
brown belly, sectioned by arch-shaped ribs, to whose dome the cover, about to
slide off completely, could barely cling. His many legs, pitifully thin compared
with the size of the rest of him, were waving helplessly before his eyes."
Gregor Samsa has gone through a metamorphosis. This change has turned Gregor
into a "monstrous vermin". The anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism, which
fill Gregor's life, are expressed by Kafka throughout the novel, metamorphosis.
Franz Kafka uses these feelings as an element of Expressionism to convey
Gregor's attitudes towards his life and society. Examples depicting this element
of Expressionism used in the novel are Gregor's feelings towards his job, the
effect his job has on his family, and the cruelty that his family displays.
The novel opens with Gregor in his monstrous state, late for work. He infers
that his job as a traveling salesman is very consequential, yet he is growing
tired and frustrated, "The upset of doing business is much worse than the actual
business in the home office, and, besides, I've got the torture of traveling,
worrying about changing trains, eating miserable food at all hours, constantly
seeing new faces, no relationships that last or get more intimate. To the devil
with it all!" Gregor has a great amount of fury towards his job, which
eventually led to his anger towards society as a whole. The fact that his office
manager showed up at Gregor's house plays an immense role in creating
trepidation and anxieties in Gregor's mind. Gregor feels strangled by his job
and is too weak to tolerate the pressure.
In addition to the pressure
created by his office manager and society, the Samsa's, especially Gregor's
father, take advantage of him. Gregor earns the basic income to support his
family. "But of course he actually could have paid off more of his father's debt
to the boss with this extra money, and the clay on which he could have gotten
rid of his job would have been much closer, but now things were undoubtedly
better, the way his father had arranged them." The superficiality of the Samsa's
has put Gregor in a difficult position, which is a component causing Gregor's
metamorphosis. Gregor's family in general, had given him the attitude he has on
life. They took advantage of him to the point where he was the means of the
family's survival. After Gregor's metamorphosis, when he could no longer attend
work, his family begins to treat him as the vermin he has become. They no longer
consider him as a human being, or a member of their family. Gregor seemed to be
waiting for his family to give up hope in him so he could end his life. "He
thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he
would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's."
Following this quotation, Gregor Samsa commits suicide. He felt he was no longer
needed, as a salesman, a son and brother, or a member of society.
Were the
anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism of human life all factors expressing the
metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa? Gregor died of a broken heart. His family and
society had a major part in bringing Gregor to his final state. Kafka used
Gregor's metamorphosis into a vermin as an allegory for Gregor's transformation
in which he alienated himself from everything and most importantly, from
himself.
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